Unemployment
Begging to feed their children
Women who beg at traffic lights with their children say they have no other options
News | 22 April 2025
Union calls on government to save steelworkers’ jobs
3,500 jobs at risk in the industry as ArcelorMittal considers retrenchments
Brief | 21 February 2025
Protesters angry that Gqeberha company is using workers from Durban
Ibhayi Workers Forum demonstrated outside Dormac in Markman industrial area
Brief | 13 February 2025
“All I want is a job” pleads unemployed doctor
Unemployed health graduates march in Pretoria, demanding urgent action from Treasury
News | 3 February 2025
Woman collapses in long queue at Pretoria labour office
Mamelodi residents say the long lines are exacerbated by the six-month closure of their labour office
Brief | 20 January 2025
“Many women are going to starve with their families” says widow as CWP contracts end
Update: COGTA extends Community Works Programme contracts terminated for workers aged 55 and older late on Thursday night
News | 16 January 2025
Here’s how an SRD beneficiary spent their R370 grant
We joined Willem Witbooi from George while shopping on Black Friday
News | 6 December 2024
Life is tough in Tin Town
“When it is raining, we spend our nights standing up”
Brief | 2 December 2024
Diamond mines everywhere but Richtersveld town battles poverty
Sanddrift residents struggle to get medication, ambulances, and jobs
Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 25 November 2024